This 'water gate' dates to 1624 and is said to have been designed by Rubens.
The water in question has long gone, along with the inner harbour, filled up in the 1960s to make a car park. Now the gate sits in the middle of a small traffic circle.
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One of Brussels’ overlooked architectural wonders, this splendid Napoleon III–style palace
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Belgium’s finest Gothic cathedral was 169 years in the making (1352–1521). Wherever you wander in Antwerp, its gracious, 123m-high spire has a habit of…
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This excellent museum of photography has a regularly changing roster of exhibitions from historical themes to no-holds-barred work by contemporary photo…
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